Drying washing on our balcony

[Emmabryant123]

We private rent in a block of 16 flats
The flats vary from rented to owned .
We put our washing on two airers today on our balcony
No offensive clothing etc on show
We came down to this message on the main front door
Are we being unreasonable!? Or is this person who wrote this note being unreasonable?

@TheHandsOfNeilBuchanan mine is a leasehold, I'm the only apartment with a garden. I put washing out as next door had their washing line up (house). Within 30 mins I had a call saying I was breaking the lease
There's no room in the apartments for a tumble dryer either so I bought a heated airer but like the last few weeks when it's 29c, it would be great to dry stuff outside

Nice @SerendipityJane. Ageist and sexist. Any guess on ethnicity for a full house 🙄

It's possible there is a clause in the lease which bans balcony drying but the LL didn't include this in the tenancy agreement sadly.

The rule is snobbery; Enforcing rules isn't

However, we need to outlaw such rules, because of environmental implications
and also because it makes life more difficult - and maybe less healthy too - if residents are forced to dry all washing indoors

Let the individual residents decide themselves, instead of snob rule

Ageist. Sexist. Could be a gay man @SerendipityJane, any more prejudices you’d like to display? Bit of racism you’d like to get out of your system?

How does washing drying look trashy?!

Everyone wears clothes. And surely drying indoors causes damp?

It should be illegal to prevent people drying their washing in their own outdoor space. Why should they be forced to contribute to global warming or have damp and mould in their homes? One of those daft rules left over from another era.

Last time we had mould we had people who manage the building come over and said it was because of drying washing indoors and to use a tumble dryer or open windows but keep heating on all day ffs.
No wonder the environment is fucked.
Have e mailed my landlady to confirm either way as actually she is the best landlady we've ever had so don't want to annoy her

I don’t think drying clothes on a drier looks trashy. I think it’s a throwback from when people used to erect washing lines across balconies, like they still do in poorer parts of Southern Europe

If it's in the owner's lease the onus was on them to put that in your tenancy agreement. If they haven't done that then they have potentially got themselves into a bit of a pickle since their agreement with the freeholder is not binding on you.

If you're worried then contact the landlord and ask them to clarify. It might well be that the note writer is a known pain in the arse and can be ignored.

FWIW my flat (freehold - I'm in Scotland) has a clause in the deeds about not hanging washing out of the windows but there are communal rotary driers out the back. I don't think it makes our building look like a council estate but then I don't really care if random strangers were to mistake it for one.

It should come to the point where washing on a balcony or on display anywhere outside is a display of your eco credentials. It should be viewed as a good thing!

Banning of outside drying should be banned!

How on Gods earth does drying washing look 'not nice unpleasant or trashy ?

Its washing, hopefully clean washing, not nuclear fallout

People who think like this need to give their head a wobble

I'd write underneath
Ooh anonymous, I'm scared

Cowards

@DGRossetti. How the heck is that virtue signalling???? Everyone has agreed the note is horrible. Then the leap to ....of course it has to a woman. And an older woman at that. I’m not even sure what virtue signalling is but I will call this bullshit out every time.

Bet you go around mumbling under your breath about ‘P.C gone mad’...

They are utter knobs with the council estate reference. However do check all your documentation carefully and with the landlord.
We merrily put a rectractable washing line up on the south facing rear balcony of a flat we bought. This balcony overlooked the bins and an alley between our block and the tatty rear of another block.
We got a much more polite email from the land agents who manage the building, that someone had complained.
It was in the paperwork we had but so easily missed. We apologised and removed the line. It’s a shame as I’m a huge fan of line drying.

Yanbu.

Drying laundry outside is better than inside or in a machine. I'd love to know what good reason there would be for not drying laundry outside .

Yes jazz this >> "Banning of outside drying should be banned!".

It was hardly virtue signalling @DGRossetti, more like calling out blatant sexism and ageism.

@TokenGinger liking your way of thinking.

Unsghtly or not it is much better for the environment than tumble driers. I think we should stop banning the hanging of washing on balconies or gardens or any private outdoor space . It is based on snobby prejudices that have no place in a world of global.warming and environmental problems.

Spot on.

@YesQueen who on earth reported that? Probably someone on here who has compared laundry outside to burned out cars and abandoned fridges 😁. Mine was a new build leasehold and I was allowed to dry in the garden. Used to let my upstairs neighbour dry hers too while I was at work, she only had a Juliette balcony

Take the note down and throw it in the bin. Leave your washing out OP.

@TheHandsOfNeilBuchanan spot on. My elderly male neighbour who also shouted at my other neighbours for having an airer up (they live in a house, they have no rules so she draped her entire balcony in drying lingerie as she was pissed off at him)

I’d be putting my washing out on my balcony to dry if I wanted to, especially if there’s nothing in your agreement to say you can’t.
I’d also be putting my own note on my door saying this is not a council property so I can dry my washing wherever I like. Thank you to mind your own business!
Some people!